From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MlR84-0005T0-6l for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 17:38:48 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1DA51E0AD8; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:38:47 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EE09BE0AD8 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:38:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CABB66B8C for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:38:46 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -3.48 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.48 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.881, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 6rlknhRCtFS2 for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:38:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E80EE6663B for ; Wed, 9 Sep 2009 17:38:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1MlR7o-0005Dt-KM for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:38:32 +0200 Received: from c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.178.110]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:38:32 +0200 Received: from reader by c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:38:32 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: mplayer and sound in firefox during playback Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 12:38:13 -0500 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87pra03toa.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <8763btngjo.fsf@newsguy.com> <200909090905.43154.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-178-110.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110011 (No Gnus v0.11) Emacs/23.0.96 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VW9f9rM7jHLuar3tMD7K6+MDlaM= Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: f3bb0959-1eb2-494b-b538-9b0cb3f540a6 X-Archives-Hash: 65394704b5194ecd4e974ec3ada7bf3b Nikos Chantziaras writes: > On 09/09/2009 10:05 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On Wednesday 09 September 2009 01:49:15 Harry Putnam wrote: >>> I've installed mplayer and am able to play back online vidoes like >>> quicktime. However, I get no sound. >>> >>> Playing the same file retrieved from browser cache, directly with >>> mplayer, works with sound. >>> >>> What do I need to do with firefox to get the sound of videos? >> >> >> >> Was firefox built with USE=alsa? > > Doesn't matter. It's the plugin that plays the sound, not Firefox (I > know because I have Firefox without the alsa USE flag and it works > OK.) I did Nikos suggestion but also discovered I hadn't relogged in the user after adding user to audio group. Once I did both it worked but not sure if both were needed. The user in audio part is a necessity for sure... but not sure the changes on right click in a running firefox playback is. What I mean is, I'm not sure if it was already right. The right click context menu preferences/play appears to be the only setting that would really matter. [audio output] [drop dn menu] The drop down offers a number of choices, alsa being one of them. I think it was blank when I first looked. It seems to work with either being blank or `alsa' inserted.